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🏆 Interior Design Lessons from Oscar-Winning Movie 🏆 Interior Design Lessons from Oscar-Winning Movies (Part 2)

Cinema doesn’t just influence fashion and architecture. It also shapes the way we think about lighting, furniture and colour at home.

Heres 3 of the 9 Oscar-winning films we've featured in our latest website article, which show how design can shape a story as powerfully as the performances (and 3 more to follow!)

In Parasite, the Park's residence, with its glass walls, tiered levels and precise sightlines, turns minimalism into a language of hierarchy and control.

In Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s Dreamhouse draws heavily on Mid-Century modernism, echoing Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann House and featuring design classics like Eero Saarinen’s Tulip chair.

In The Father, the apartment itself becomes part of the storytelling. Subtle shifts in layout and furniture disorient both the character and the viewer, while George Nelson’s Saucer Bubble Pendant hangs calmly above the chaos.

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The 98th Academy Awards is this Sunday 16th!
🏆 Interior Design Lessons from Oscar-Winning Movie 🏆 Interior Design Lessons from Oscar-Winning Movies (Part 1)

We recently wrote a feature commissioned by a partner exploring how Oscar-winning film interiors influence the way we think about our own homes.

Heres 3 of the 9 films we highlighted, which show how design can shape a story as powerfully as the performances (and 6 more to follow!)

The Brutalist features disciplined modernist furniture which echo the thinking of Breuer, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, reminding us that strong lines and honest materials never go out of style.

In Sentimental Value, a Norwegian house becomes an emotional archive, where furniture carries memory and the Arco floor lamp and Lamino chair sit alongside everyday objects that have quietly accumulated meaning.

Meanwhile Conclave uses design to heighten tension. Deep red interiors, symmetry and modernist icons such as the LC armchairs and Arco floor lamp sharpen the atmosphere inside the Vatican.

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The 98th Academy Awards is this Sunday 16th!
🇲🇽 Our best-kept secret… After receiving several 🇲🇽 Our best-kept secret…

After receiving several enquiries about the large, square Mexican beer glasses seen in Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico, we decided to track them down. We can't resist a challenge...

That mission led us all the way to a small supplier in Mexico.

Organising shipments, navigating customs, and getting them safely to the UK turned out to be a journey worthy of Rick Stein himself. But the effort paid off.

We’re now proud to say that Film and Furniture is (as far as we know) the only place in the UK where you can buy these traditional Mexican glasses.

Made from beautifully thick glass and shaped as a square with rounded corners, they’re designed to keep drinks colder for longer. Pop them in the freezer before serving and they become the perfect glass for a cold beer on a warm evening.

They also work brilliantly as unusual dinner-party glasses for starters, desserts, or cocktails.

Barware with a story — and now a little piece of television history.

🛍️ We sell them directly through Film and Furniture. Head to the link in our bio (Marketplace Edit) to get yours.
Bugonia is bonkers, beautiful and built around con Bugonia is bonkers, beautiful and built around contrast. It's also nominated for four Oscars at Sunday’s Academy Awards.

Before working in film, production designer @jamesroberternestprice (also co-designer of Poor Things) grew up on a farm. A world far removed from film sets and production design.

In this clip from the Film and Furniture Video Podcast, James talks about that journey and how his path into production design was neither planned nor conventional.

His work on @bugoniafilm directed by @_yorgos_lanthimos_ and starring Emma Stone (nominated for Best Actress), reflects that same non-linear route. Thoughtful, creative, observant and inventive.

👉 🎬 Watch the full video podcast for more behind-the-scenes stories and design insight.

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Some chairs earn their place in film history. Desi Some chairs earn their place in film history. Designed by Michael Wolk and introduced by Design America in 1990, the sculptural Tucker chair takes its cues from the streamlined curves of the 1948 Tucker automobile. Beneath the upholstery lies an intricate plywood armature engineered almost like an aircraft frame, allowing for those sweeping, fully rounded arms and integrated legs.

The design gained wider recognition after appearing in Max Shreck’s office in Batman Returns (pic 1). It has also appeared in Inspector Gadget (pics 2&3) and in episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager (pic 4)

This pair is currently available via @liveauctioneers offering a rare chance to own a design that sits at the intersection of American contemporary furniture and film set history.

🪑 Sculptural statement pieces.
🎬 With a surprisingly good film résumé.
In Suspiria (1977), directed by Dario Argento, col In Suspiria (1977), directed by Dario Argento, colour is key. 

Helena Markos’s bedroom is crowned by an extravagant multicoloured peacock lamp with glass feathers. Pure, unapologetic ornament. It gathers the film’s saturated reds, blues and golds into one gleaming focal point.

And then Argento weaponises it.

In the climax, the lamp is smashed and its shattered glass becomes the instrument of Markos’s downfall. Lighting becomes part of the action.

From a design perspective, that’s what makes Suspiria so thrilling. Interiors are heightened, theatrical, almost unreal. 

A lamp can steal the scene.

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